Reviews

Russian Folksongs in the Key of Sadness

Evgeny Masloboev & Anastasia Masloboeva

Leo Records, which has released artists such as Sun Ra, Evan ParkerandArt Ensemble of Chicago, has long been an important...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2011

Next Market Day

Chloe Matharu

Chloe Matharu is a young Edinburgh singer with a rich inheritance. Her father is from the Punjab, while her mother...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2011

Find the Lady

Belshazzar's Feast

Pauls Sartin and Hutchinson have worked as a duo for 15 years, burrowing into the sheet music and songbooks of...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2010

Mi Camino Flamenco

Paco El Lobo

This is pretty much a solo disc: the versatile Paco ‘El Lobo’ (The Wolf) sings, plays guitar, pummels cajón percussion...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2010

Janus

Spakka-Neapolis 55

Fiddler Antonio Fraioli and singer Monica Pinto established their reputation with Spaccanapoli, whose debut Lost Souls was published on Real...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2010

Lumiere

Lumiere

The eponymous debut offering from Lumiere heralds an impressive and altogether bewitching partnership between seasoned vocalists Éilís Kennedy and Patricia...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2010

Transatlantic Sessions 4: Volume 2

VARIOUS ARTISTS

The second CD release taken from last year's fourth outing of the Transatlantic Sessions TV series captures – much better...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2010

Al Maraya

Al Andaluz Project

The giveaway is in the title. If you slip the word ‘project’ into your name, you are probably in earnest....

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2010

Grannen

Frigg

Frigg can do no wrong. I have waxed lyrical about them in these pages in the past and am beginning...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2010

Gigi de Nissa

Gigi de Nissa

Gigi is the nom de plume of one Louis Pastorelli, a fellow traveller of Moussu T – a shared personal...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2010